"Vincenzo Fuccini reached inside his Armani jacket and gripped the butt of his weapon, which hung suspended in his shoulder holster. No one would die tonight. Not if he had anything to do with it." Prologue, pg. 7

"The fact that Vincenzo would walk away from this carnage was enough to make him a hero. His name would go down in the mafia history books for years to come." Prologue, pg. 16

"'No problem, I won't rush you, just hurry up.'" Chapter 1, pg. 19

"Fitting how twenty-five hundred years ago, prisoners fought to the death in Rome, and now he got to experience the same pleasures, first hand." Chapter 2, pg. 34

"Her man. Her new husband. She couldn't let him face this alone. Not after all they'd been through together." Chapter 3, pg. 39

"She could've been in Athens. She could've been far from these people. But she walked off the plane and...